It happens a lot. All of a sudden, my laptop freezes on me, and no matter what.. I was ledt with a hard shutdown, losing unsaved stuff. I have increased swap size from 4gb to 64vb, freezing is now less frequently, but still hapens from to time. Most of the time, the only open app is Brave browser. My laptop has 4gb ram and SSD drive.
Because of Brave: Are you using the Flatpak Version or the .deb Version form the Brave Repo
In the past I have resurrected operation after freeze using Ctrl+Alt+Del on ZorinOS.
I have it installed from the terminal using these lines:
sudo apt install curl
sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install brave-browser
What else should I do to avoid those dreaded frequent freezes?
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More RAM?
How many tabs do you have open in Brave? Try to minimize it.
it froze today minutes after opening Brave with only 7 tabs. I am used to opening tens of tabs with no problems in other times.
My laptop has 4gb ram and 64gb swap, and I am using Zorin Lite 17.2
Have you checked the RAM usage of Brave with 7-10 tabs? It could also be a memory leak from Brave.
You can use btop (needs to be installed first) in the terminal to see the usage.
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Okay, the .deb Version. How is Your Resolution and Refresh Rate set up? Another Point could be - like @Storm already suggested - to built in more RAM.